This is the top-level of the Solaris Community SoftWare archive.
Volunteers create binary packages for Solaris, that anyone can use.
(Unless you are in a cryptographically embargoed country like
Libya, Iran, Iraq, and other excluded countries barred from crypto
by the US State department, in which case you may not use this archive)
List of "master" sites, can be found at
http://www.opencsw.org/mirrors
All CSW packages install into /opt/csw, with the binaries usually found in
/opt/csw/bin
The simplest way to download and install packages, is to grab
the portable "pkg_get.pkg" package and install it on your system.
Download it from this directory, run
# pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg
as root
[You may also need to install either wget-i386 or wget-sparc as wget
somewhere in your PATH ]
You should then edit /opt/csw/etc/pkg-get.conf, or
create /etc/opt/csw/pkg-get.conf if you prefer,
and update it to use the closest mirror site to you,
and the appropriate subdirectory; "current", or "stable"
DIRECTORIES:
"current" is for freshly released packages.
"stable" is for packages that have been tested for a while in "current".
"unstable" is just a symlink to "current", for legacy purposes.
For more information on the CSW effort, please visit
http://www.opencsw.org/
There you will find details on volunteering to maintain packages, or
on signing up to be an official mirror site
GPL note: You may get a list of any source changes that were needed to compile
a particular package, by contacting the maintainer of the specific package in
question. In general, no source code changes are involved in our packages.
A list of public sites:
AUSTRALIA
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/opencsw/
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/solaris/opencsw
IRELAND
http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/opencsw.org/
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/opencsw.org/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/opencsw/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/opencsw
GERMANY:
http://csw.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/csw
GREECE
ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/sun/opencsw (preferred)
http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/vendors/sun/opencsw
LATVIA
http://csw.fx.lv
ftp://csw.fx.lv/csw
SWEDEN
http://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/csw
ftp://ftp.df.lth.se/pub/csw
SWITZERLAND
http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/opencsw
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/opencsw
UK
http://www.grangefields.co.uk/mirrors/csw
USA:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/opencsw
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/opencsw
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/csw
ftp://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/csw
Note on rsync:
You can also find mention of rsync capable sites, at
http://www.opencsw.org/mirrors
Please note that when rsyncing, you should use the -H flag,
to preserve hard links, if you are getting more than one particular
subdirectory of this tree.